Improvement in water-wheels



"tluited gieten @anni @Wina Letters Patent No. 111,601, dated February 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the saine.

-To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN P. ALLEN, of Springfield,..in thecounty of Clark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in- Vater-Wheels; andA that the following is a full and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the'same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my waterwheel, complete.

Figure 2 represents-a vertical section through the same. i i

Figure 3 represents a perspective view of the under side ofthe wheel proper, detached from its casing.

Figure 4,represeuts a perspective view of the casing, and the stationary guides which direct the water to the wheel.

Similar letters of reference, where they occur, denote like parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to that class of horizontal water-wheels ill-which the water is direetedfto the wheel from underneath; and

It relates to the manner in which the directingguides, inclined at the proper angle, are arranged be` tween two conical rings inclined toward the inside of' the wheel, so as to utilize better the whole power oi the waterthan if the guides were inclined around a cylinder only. n

My invention relates also to the manner in which the wheel is made, with two concentric rows of buckets connected by openings, so that while the inner row receives the water the outer row directs -it against a series of vertical plates radiating from the conical guides to the outer ring inclosing the wheel, the top of the wheel being made concave near its outer rim, for receivingthe centrifugal force ofthe water and guidit downward.

tending lower than the outer buckets of the wheel,

and serving as a guide for the cylindrical gatein closing up the exit ofthe water from the wheel.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawing.

A represents a cylindrical chamber, which is placed under a series of inclined guides, B'.

These guides B are placed between two conical rings or bands, C D, by which means the water is directed against the buckets e of the wheel E.

These buckets e areformed ofvertical plates arranged radially around the cylinder ll, and extended outward to the periphery of the wheel, where their' vertical position is changed to an incline, j, to direct the water in its exit from the wheel.

The top plateiof the wheel E is inclined 'downward `andmade concave near its periphery, so as to resist the centrifugal motion of the water and direct it downward to the outer inclinesf Ot' thc wheel.

F is a stationary ring which incloses the wheel. It is connected to the cone D by a series oi' radiating bars or plates, y, on which the water reacts in escaping from the wheel, giving it an additional impulse.

The lower end of the cone I) is curved outward at h, where it has lugs i, through which thc apparatus is E', and by which it can be Operated by any well-known means.

The operation of my improved water-whecl is as follows: i

The water'entcri-ng the opening A of the chamber A, rushes, when the gate L is raised, up the inclined guides B, between the cones C and-1), against the vertical portion e ofthe buckets of the wheel, from which it is deflected by the concave form c of the top of the wheel to'the inclinedy buckets j, from which it passes against the radiating bars g, to the Opening between the curved bottom lt of the cone D andthe bottom edge ofthe gate. l 'Having'thus fully described the` construction and operation of niy water-wheel,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination with a water-wheel receiving the` water on the underside, the inclined' guides B, when arranged between 'two conical rings C and D, substantiall y as and for the purpose described.

2. ,In combination with the conical guide-rings C and I), the wheel E, made with 'two rows of buckets connected together, the inner row beingniade of vertical plates to receive the water, and the outer row inclined to discharge it, with the top plate concave near its outer edge, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.- l

3. In combination with a water-wheel having two rows of buckets, as described, the ring F, when connectcd to a conical ring,l 1), by bars g placed immediatcly against the discharge ofthe wheel, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN P. ALLEN. Witnesses:

A. B. STOUGHTON, EDMUND MASSON. 

